Music Crime of the Century

OK, so award for the most neglected blog of 2012 goes to… well, not me! Maybe I haven’t updated this thing in a couple of weeks… but I’ve seen worse!

Well, I was watching 4Music this weekend (as you do when you have no immediately imminent exams to worry about!) and I saw the biggest music crime of the century. It came in the form of One Direction and a song they sang called ‘Little Things’. Now this song, when you hear it, isn’t one of the average ‘pop’ songs out there. It has a very distinctive style which you immediately associate with Ed Sheeran. You know, Ed, he’s the down-to-earth ginger dude.  Look that’s him, down there;

BTW, did you know he’s from YORKSHIRE?! Seriously, I was born in the most talented county ever! Ahem.

Anyway, Ed Sheeran’s biggest hits are songs like ‘The A Team’, ‘Lego House’, ‘You Need Me, I Don’t Need You’…etc. Now, I’m presuming you’ve heard these songs before, but if not, go check out YouTube! Like… now! I'll post the most popular one here;

 Thing is, you might think, ‘Oh, these are well crap!’ but they grow on you. It’s a simple kind of music that Ed Sheeran generally makes, with his guitar as the main instrument.

But for some absolutely RIDICULOUS reason, he wrote a song, or gave one of his songs (I don’t know exactly how this crime came about) to One Direction. I mean WHAT?! ONE BLOOMIN’ DIRECTION! Those BOYS who are like the epitome of crappy-poppy-teenage-girl-attracting… ok, I don’t know how to finish that line but whatever! I’m seething! Ugh, it just makes me cross! When someone is as original and as distinctive as Ed Sheeran, they shouldn’t just let their songs, their heartfelt lyrics, be sung by talent-show manufactured boy bands. It’s just plain wrong!

As a general rule, I don’t usually have a problem with people writing for other artists. I mean, The Script’s ‘Live Like We’re Dying’ was originally given to some American dude but that was OK because the song was quite mainstream and it was cool no matter who sang it. But this is like Adele giving away a song to… Little Mix! It’s not right! When a singer/songwriter is not conventional, when they push the boundaries out with lyrics that are unpredictable and can only be associated with them, no-one else should be given their songs.

Dear oh dear, I need a cuppa tea.